About

The Australian Free Speech Coalition is a group of Aussies concerned with ongoing threats to the freedom of speech in Australia.

The Thugs' Veto has become a common strategy to shut down free speech events. To help achieve their political purposes, some extremists now use threatened and actual violence to intimidate event organisers and attendees. Too often, police fail to arrest people who threaten, harass and assault those who are lawfully exercising their freedoms to assemble and to hear political speech. Matters are made worse when the police purport to charge event organisers crippling fees for police assistance in order to protect against these thugs.

When Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux toured Australia in July this year, that's exactly what happened. Thugs threatened, harassed, and even assaulted those attending a lawful assembly. Victoria Police made only a single arrest when a police officer was assaulted. Victoria Police then invoiced the organiser, Axiomatic Events, a whopping $67,842.50. Doing this is exactly what extremist groups like Antifa want. It only gives these groups extra incentive to threaten and use violence against Australians who are doing nothing more than exercising their fundamental freedoms to speech and assembly.

That extremists use threatened and actual violence to censor free speech is terrible. That Victoria Police gives the appearance of enabling and even rewarding such behaviour should concern every Australian.

Victoria Police should not be enabling the Thugs' Veto.

We need your help.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. We are preparing to fight the Daniel Andrews Victorian government and Victoria Police in Court to prevent their dangerous interference in common law rights such as the freedom of peaceful assembly and free speech. We are advised by counsel that a judicial review is likely to remind them of their purpose under the Victoria Police Act (2013).

“The role of Victoria Police is to serve the Victorian community and uphold the law so as to promote a safe, secure and orderly society.”

In coming days a fighting fund will be created to raise the necessary money to defend freedom. Other organisations are already changing or cancelling their free speech event plans out of fear of a "$68,000" bill. Setting the example of how to resist such immoral penalties is now not only a matter of public interest, but urgent.